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Re: Tory Leadership Race Updates

What a damn fiasco... at this point assuming Boris takes this I am unsure anyone can secure a Brexit deal.

For convenience's sake, copying this (in its pertinent part for here) from the other thread:

Originally Posted by Chagos

~.......................What BoJo is aware of however (I've pointed out that he's not stupid despite having the buffoon record) is that if he pursues a no-deal exit, he's going to face a no-confidence vote in parliament. Which the Tories will lose on account of not every Tory's loyalty to the party stretching that far. Many of those that voted down yesterday's motion are aware of plenty of future opportunities to scuttle a no-deal scenario and will, if push comes to shove in that manner, swallow the toad of general elections.

IOW we're all no further than before in the sense that Boris is or will be just as hamstrung as Theresa was. I suspect that, should the Tories hoist him into the saddle, most will do it in the awareness of his being able to secure a deal that is only along the lines (IOW not much dissimilar) to the one we already have. Just that his charisma will assist him into spinning it thru parliament better than May was able to.

Of course the ERG fraudsters won't share that view but they do not constitute a Tory majority.

....with my having bolded the part over what sort of deal seems probable.

One need add that if Boris attempts to prorogue parliament to push anything thru without it (he's so far ducked that issue despite robust questioning), he'll be toast as much as the whole government will be.

In his presentation of yesterday and the questioning that followed, he showed his past mastery at side-stepping. That may disgust many but is, in his case, not unwise. If you have no idea of what you're going to do, committing yourself to ANY sort of future action would be stupid. But that can cannot be kicked indefinitely.

Originally Posted by coldjoint

~......................... I fully expect you to disappear ............~

Re: Tory Leadership Race Updates

Originally Posted by PoS

Originally Posted by OrphanSlug

What a damn fiasco... at this point assuming Boris takes this I am unsure anyone can secure a Brexit deal.

Boris will.

Boris will become PM barring a major foot in mouth scenario and he will probably deliver the Canada+++ agreement that was offered by the EU some 2 years ago - it's how much he will stitch up Northern Ireland that remains the question.

In years to come, when people ask how the whole of Eire was reunited, they will point to Brexit and then the not insignificant part Bojo played in both.

Originally Posted by chuckiechan

Really? Wanna know how they wash their babies in Africa? They spray them with breast milk and let the goats lick them clean.

Originally Posted by trixare4kids

I'd have MORE respect for Starbucks if they would just own up to their own policy of booting non-paying black customers